The biggest surprise news from Apple in 2005 was the switch to Intel chips for the Mac. More surprises are due. CNN Money has their own list of upcoming Apple gadgets for Macworld. Add yours to the list. By January, no one will know what Apple will do. Full Story »

Which browser is fastest? How fast? Which is slowest and why? Are Windows browsers faster than Mac browsers? Or, are Linux browsers even faster? This Browser Speed Test compares all browsers on Windows to Mac to Linux? Is your favorite on the list? Full Story »

There was a day when I had 10,000 fonts for my Mac. My addiction grew to nearly 3-million pieces of clip art; bit map, vector graphics, photographs. I thought my addiction had passed until I saw the new Print Shop. Now I'm collecting art templates, art tools, photo effects, edges effects. The art monkey's on my back again. Full Story »

We all love our browsers. Next to email, browsers are our 'personal' Mac application. Is there anything out there better than Safari? Better than Firefox? Better than Camino, or OmniWeb, or Opera, or iCab, or Mozilla? Perhaps. Take a look at Shiira. It's free, it's fast, it's got 'skins', and sports a Dashboard Widget browser. Full Story »

Have you ever wanted to take a page from a web browser, or a Word document, or a spreadsheet, and draw on it, then send it to someone? Me neither. But now I do, thanks to Flying Meat. No, it's not like when pigs fly, Flying Meat's FlySketch and Voodoo Pad do something that's cool, works well, and gives you a solution to a problem you didn't know you had. Full Story »

What's the hottest gift this year? It's Apple's diminutive iPod in every version. iPod shuffle. iPod nano. iPod. Even the discontinued iPod mini sells for more on eBay than they sold new at Apple. What does the leader reporter at a WKRP look-alike TV station say about the iPod? "Don't waste your money." Full Story »

It's that time of the year. Stress from holiday shopping. No iPods at the stores. Journalists stay out too late and drink too much. Add it all up and you're likely to start a rumor that will affect my stock portfolio. I've got AAPL when it was affordable and I don't want a monkey-brained journalist spreading rumors like Apple should "buy Palm." Full Story »

The announcement was not unexpected. Microsoft will stop supporting Mac Internet Explorer at the end of 2005. Surprised? What was surprising was that the announcement was on Yahoo news. MSIE for Mac has been dead for years. Why did it need an official announcement? Full Story »

It used to be that media hounds like me looked forward to Time Magazine's annual "Man of the Year" award. Since 1927, Popes and Presidents, Judges and Generations, have made it to the top of Time's list. Politically correct Time has fallen into disrepute and disrepair. Bono? Bill Gates? Take my subscription. Please. Full Story »

Welcome to the CMS Fanboy club. Content Management Systems come of age for Mac users. Easy to install and run on a Mac, powerful and flexible, pMachine's updated Expression Engine tops the latest class. Oh, there's a free version, too. Full Story »

The latest Mac news and rumors headlines are enough to send you back to bed to finish reading that book on Linux. What's going on? The traditional effects of the run up to January's Macworld Expo and new Apple products has clashed with Steve Jobs' notorious RDF™ to create Freaky Friday News. Full Story »

First, backup, backup, backup. If you don't have a good backup plan for your Mac's hard drive, get one. Why? Try this: You've got 3,000 songs on iTunes and in your iPod. One day, your Mac wakes up dead. Hard drive died. iTunes and all your music from iTunes Music Store is gone. What do you do? Full Story »